No-Viagra-For-Sex-Offenders Among Senate GOP Health Amendments
By Frank James Senate Republicans have alerted anyone who will listen that they intend to try and gum up the works to slow their Democratic colleagues’ efforts to pass the…
Pakistan Civil War News Updates — March 22, 2010
In Pakistan’s Swat, Taliban Instill Fear After Defeat — Reuters (Reuters) – Kishwar Begum studied nursing until she apparently decided to take lives, not help save them. Her photograph appears…
Violent Video Game Ban Passes In Switzerland
Government preparing to outline the specifics of new legislation that will illegalise violent games Just a month after the proposals were first outlined in full, the Swiss National Council has…
Rabbi David Wolpe: ‘Heaven’: Does Newsweek’s Lisa Miller’s Book Make The Concept Any Less Trite?
Mark Twain quipped that people assume heaven will be green fields and harp music – an eternity of activities no one would enjoy for five minutes while still alive. Here…
Jack Myers: Kantar 2009 Media Spending Compared to Myers 2009 Spending Data
Kantar Media last week released its ad spending data for the full year 2009, reporting a decline in year-to-year spending of 12.3% and total ad spending of $125.3 billion. Since…
Libertarian Party member now serving as Virginia Republican AG Cuccinelli’s media spokesman
Member, Roanoke Valley Libertarians Brian Gottstein recently took over as media spokesman for libertarian-leaning Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. Gottstein is well known downstate, as a hardline libertarian talk show…
Simon says … higher bid
Here’s the latest twist in the General Growth saga: Simon Property says it is weighing a higher bid for its smaller, bankrupt rival and could come up with something within a week. …
Details From Jonathan Alter’s ‘The Promise’ Leak: Obama On Teabaggers, Rahm’s Fits, Summers vs. Orszag
As Democrats prepare to vote on the historic health-care legislation this weekend, a new look inside the White House is emerging from an upcoming book by Newsweek national-affairs columnist Jonathan…
Mom Charged With First-Degree Murder In Baby’s Death
Bond was denied Saturday for a Southeast Side woman charged with murdering her 7-month-old daughter in July 2009. Vanessa Urbina, 23, of the 10600 block of South Avenue E, was…
Peter Graves Is ‘Mr. Phelps’ To Me, But He Flew High In ‘Airplane!’ Too
trospect took forever to set up those complicated surveillance devices, but always came through; Cinnamon, the sexy seducer; Rollin, the master of disguise; Willy, the not-very-talkative muscle; and Jim, the cooly efficient…